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I feel like all these discussions should make some mention of how the US government felt this was their land to give
by barking 7y ago
I feel like all these discussions should make some mention of how the US government felt this was their land to give
- Aloha 7y agoI mean, it legally was. The fact that we effectively stole it from the natives, is immaterial to that.
- homonculus1 7y ago*conquered
- CydeWeys 7y agoNo, a lot of it was just outright treaties and contracts that were then later ignored. And there is/was legal theories of war, which weren't applied to the "savages" back then.
- inscionent 7y agoMurder, Forced Labor, Indefinite imprisonment. It was what it was. We can become a better society but not if we turn a blind eye to where we came from.
- mieseratte 7y ago> I feel like all these discussions should make some mention of how the US government felt this was their land to give I feel the opposite. It distracts from the topic at-hand.